The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-08
THE STATE.


display last week
The State Prohibition Convention meets
in Jackson Thursday, July Il
Franklin College, at Holly Springs
holds her commencement to-day
Commencement week at Whitworth Col
leee. Brookhaven, begins June 10.
$50 far as the sale of liquors goes,
Meridian is now perfectly dry town.
Mrs. Delphine Buford, wife of Col. A. G.
Buford, died in Water Valley, May ~.
Extensive additions are being made to
the stone ware factory at Holly Springs
Jackson, Meridian and Vieksburg Will
have the Tree delivery system, after July l.
The Compress at Holly Springs Will
soon be complete from foundation to pima
Gle.
St. PauPs Catholic church of Nicksburg
will nave a splendid chime OF bells, very
soon.
The Brookhaven Amateurs will present
+" Ingomar, " in their city, tomorrow
night.
The negro who killed young Haines at
Shelby, recently, has been captured IN Ar
kansas.
The commencement exef eises OF Fayette
Female Academy will be held Friday,
June 10.
Mr.. Henry Schiller, an active member OF
Warren Light Artillery, died IN Nicks-
burg last week.
Mr.. Harry Hudson committed suicide
ct Shuqulak last week by shooting himself
through the heart.
Miss Ruth Jones, Of Grenada, Miss, Is
French Valedictorian at Columbia Insti-
tute, Columbia, Tenn.
A grand Mikado Fete is to be given at
Hazlehurst tonight, for the benefit OF the
Parks, in that little city.
The River Commission meets in Nicks-
hurg to-day. and the Louisiana monument
will be dedicated Saturday.
DR.. Henry Stone, formerly of this State,
and well known in the river counties, died
recently in Little Rock, Ark.
Mississippi College at Clinton will oe-
cupy the entire week, beginning June 70,
with commencement exercises
The Oxford Eagle claims more AN
uouncements7 than any other paper IN
the State. And justly, too, we believe.
Messrs. Frederic & .Iarmon, prominent
lawyers OF Tippah county, have moved to
Fort Smith, Ark, to practice their probes
sion.
Aberdeen will issue her ten-year six per
cent bonds TO aid in constructing branch
| road connection with the X. C., NJ. Y Nj.
r. r.
The name of the postofice heretofore
known as Howardville, Holmes county,
| will be known in future as Howard-mlnus
the VILE.
Mr.. Charles Sohevright, useful young
citizen of Meridian, died in that city last
week, after an illness Of only few days
duration.
Mr.. A. L. Burwell, an old citizen of
Lauderdale county, died last week at the
age of eighty-two, an honored, Christian
gentleman.
Cooper's Well now has a fine livery
stable in connection with the other benefits
of the place, so that the guests can enjoy
pleasant drives.
The Methodist church, belonging to the
colored people in kOsciusko, was burned
to the ground last week. They will re-
build Immediately.
The University of Mississippi viii in
augurate their commencement exercises
with sermon by Rev. Atticus Ct. Hay
good, on Sunday, June 26.
Miss SAllie Fitzpatrick, one Of this years
pupils at the l. l. & c., has been appointed
10 the position of book-keeper for the No-
mans Exchange, IN Memphis.
At recent competitive debate in the
Herman Literary Society, at the Uniyer.
sity of Mississippi, Mr.. John Oliver, Of
Wesson, won the championship.
A terrapin was found by Port Gibson
boy last week while fishing in Senter's
Creek, near town, with tue figures 1887 q"
and the letters "a. II. B., cut in the she'll.
Kavanaugh College holds her third
annual commencement next week. Exer-
cises begin Sunday with a sermon by Rev.
Mr.. De Hart, and continue through Tues
day.
Miss Minnie Cohen, bright young girl,
won the elegant scholarship medal for
this year, at the public school in Meridian.
1t was presented by Mr.. Witherspoon last
week.
The Second Annual Commencement Of
the Industrial Institute and College, Col
umbus, begins Sunday, June 10, with a
sermon by Rev. c. Ii. Strickland, of Nash
vile, Tenn.
At the recent commencement exercises
Of Georgetown University Law School, the
degree OF Bachelor of Laws was conferred
upon Mr. Robert X. Yonngblood, of Col
umbus, Miss.
The Canton Citizen, in speaking OF Mis-
sissippis cotton kings, strawberry kings
and vegetable kings, rises to inquire who
will assume the honor of being grape king
of this great State.
Mr. Tom Raspberry has opened up an
ice cream stand In the restaurant on Main
street Hattiesburg Courier.
Wonder if he will furnish raspberry
cream, exclusively.
Bishop Adams, for several years rector
of the parish OF Holy Trinity, and formerly
| Bishop of New Mexico, has been elected
Bishop Of the Diocese Of Easton, Mary
land He has accepted.
The last heer license in Meridian ex-
pired on Wednesday last The sales OF
| the saloon IN beer and ale since January
l, amounted to $4,000 gallons, yielding
gross revenue OF 81, 800.
The East Mississippi Times insists that
the Dairymen of that county shall plant
truck farms next to their diaries, so that
these two PROFITABLE lines of business may
''dove tail" into each other.
The boiler shop at Water Valley is now
employed in putting up two mogul boilers
| for Chicago so inch shell. These, when
completed, will be the largest ever put up
in the Water Valley shops
| In the case Of the State VS.. Walter I.
Lamar, of Yazoo City, charged with the
| shooting of Art. Crane, a change OF venue
was granted, 10 the second district OF Kinds
county. 1t viii probably come up the first
week in August,
The widow Dean, of Simpson county,
committed suicide last week, by hanging
herself with hank Of thread. She leaves
several children. The cause OF the suicide
is supposed to be partial insanity and
extreme poverty.
G.. G. Middleton, colored, was ordained
into the ministry of the Episcopal church.
Sunday. He is the first colored man ever
ordained into the Episcopal ministry in
this State. The services were conducted
by Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson and
DIR. SAMSON.
Aberdeen, by a nearly unanimous vote.
has subscribed sixty thousand dollars to
the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham
Railroad, to aid in constructing a twelve
mile branch from Aberdeen to connect with
the main line. The construction work
will begin Immediately.
The closing exercises Of the Chamber
lain-Hunt Academy at Port Gibson will
take place June A. The commencement
sermon will be preached by Rev. Jno.
Hunter, of Jackson. The Female College
in the same town, will hold their com
mencement exercises on the 18th inst.
A little daughter OF Mr. J. w. White. Of
Sturges, was instantly killed last week. bv |
a falling tree. A negro man was telling
he fraa and . /